To dream is all it’s cracked to be
Did you know that businesses with less than five employees make up 62-percent of all businesses in the country? Or – according to the Small Business Association – that more than half of the businesses in the U.S. are small, and that number is growing?
Makes you rethink long-held beliefs, doesn’t it? But, it’s true.
Since 1982, the SBA says the number of small businesses has increased a whopping 49-percent. The Kaufman Index adds that 310 out of every 100,000 adults become new business owners each month.
Why is owning your first businesses such a popular option? The answers are as individual as potential owners, themselves, but I believe the primary reason is the fact that you, yes you, are finally your own boss. You make the choices and the decisions. Plus, there’s no one signing your paycheck.
Did you ever plant a seed as a child? Whether flower or a radish, you were enthralled with the process, then felt proud when the seed sprouted and started to grow. And the first time you could pick and share the bounty, you were on top of the world.
First-time business owners also discover what “I-did-it” feels like, and it’s not about the bounty, or in your case, money, although in the future it will be.
It’s knowing this is all about you sacrificing things like nights out for dinner with things that make you feel good about yourself. One day, down the road, when the business has successfully established itself, you’ll get that free time back.
As mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell once said: “If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are — if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.”
Isn’t it time you follow your dream?